Idaho · Nonprofit
Challis Arts Council Inc
Challis Arts Council Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,397 to it, the largest being CHC FOUNDATION ($9,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Challis Arts Council Inc does
Mission
Promote Arts and Humanities in Custer County to the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Promote Arts & Humanities in Custer County by providing gallery shows and openings, gift shop sales for regional and local artists. Approximately sixty artists benefit each year. Educational Performing Arts - providing performances and work shops for all students ; award scholarships to students. Approximately two hundred students benefit from these opportunities.Provide an annual concert for Independence Day Celebration for general public. Approximately one hundred people benefit each year.
$29,443 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,443.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $600 → $11k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Challis Arts Council Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Challis Arts Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
67% of Challis Arts Council Inc's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Challis Arts Council Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Challis Arts Council Inc?
- Challis Arts Council Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,397 to it, the largest being CHC FOUNDATION ($9,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Challis Arts Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $15,397 in grants to Challis Arts Council Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Challis Arts Council Inc?
- CHC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Challis Arts Council Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing